The physician-surrogate relationship

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1117-1121

  Torke, Alexia M ^a,b,c   Alexander, G Caleb ^a,b   Lantos, John ^a,b   Siegler, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

DECISION MAKING; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROXY; SOCIAL VALUES; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 34250367478     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.11.1117     Document Type: Review

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